Of course I knew for sure that I was never, ever going to participate in the Hygge CAL. And yes, it kinda hurt not being part of this wonderful community making something nice. But lack of time, due to work and travel, prevented me from taking part. And, I'll be very honest about this, the idea of embroidering on crochet was completely putting me off. It looked too hard, too fiddly. I was sure I was going to suck at it, r screw it up. But I followed participants of the CAL on Instagram and oh my, how lovely their projects looked. So I wonderen, can I make something like this? Maybe? Would I be able to? So I faffed around a little and came up with the scarf of hearts. You can see the free tutorial below.

PLEASE NOTE!Before we start a little disclaimer! Of course it would be really unfair to claim this pattern as my own, as it's not. This scarf is completely inspired by the Scheepjes Hygge CAL that Kirsten Ballering designed. I simply modified some things, and simplified stuff (or, I think I did), and in this tutorial I will only explain you how I made the scarf.

Crochet the scarf- Chain 20- Single crochet (sc) in 2nd stitch from the hook, 18 sc (19sc in total)- Ch1 (does NOT count as a sc), 19 sc

Continue 'Ch1 (doesn't count as 1sc), 19sc' until your scarf is about 2 meters long. This will probably take you a couple of evenings, so put on Las Chicas del Cable on Netflix (you're welcome!) and you'll be there in no time.

You'll need more or less 3 balls to get to 2 meters, but keep measuring while you're working. If you're there, cast off and weave in your ends. Fill your sink with tepid water and a little bit of Eucalan. Let your scarf swim in the bubbles for about 15 minutes. Squeeze the water out gently (no rinsing needed) and pin your scarf. You'll probably stretch it a little while pinning (my scarf ended up being 12 cm longer!), but that's quite alright.

- Take the scarf from the maths when it's completely dried.- On both ends of the scarf, cross stritch the hearts. - You can find the instructions and chart here.It really wasn't that heard cross stitching on crochet. Even better: I actually quite loved the process, it was just so relaxing.

(As you can see, I managed to cross stritch the hearts on OFF centre... TWICE! Seriously, I don't know how I get through a day. But I decided I thought my hearts were way too cute to unravel and start over, so let's just call this artistic freedom, shall we, hmm).

Cut and iron your fabric- Measure your scarf and cut this exact size from your fabric.- My scarf is 9.5 cm wide and 212 cm long and my fabric wasn't that long, so I cut 2 strips of 9.5 cm x 107 cm and sewed the strips together with a 1 cm seam allowance.- Along the long sides iron the fabric 0.5 cm to the wrong side of the fabric. This is quite a fiddly task, and it took me a lot of water and steam, but you'll be fine. Along the short ends, iron the fabric 1cm to the wrong side of the fabric.

Hand sew the fabrc to the back of the scarf- Pin the fabric onto the back f the fabric. Use lotsa pins, so the fabric won't be able to slip.- Handsew the fabric to the scarf, using a blind stitch. Yes, this may take you quite a while (diy is such torture sometimes), but just watch the new season of The Ranch on Netflix ;-)